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 New York University's 80 Washington Square East Galleries current group exhibition, "All is well that begins well and has no end," has that battle of the bands feel by offering a range of work by emerging artists. The show is co-curated by Jan Van Woensel, an independent curator, art critic, lecturer and film producer based in New York and Antwerp. Appointed as a Senior Studio Professor at NYU, Steinhardt School of Education, Van Woensel has been nominated for the 2007 Curatorial Fellowship at Art in General, New York. Other co-curators include artist Ernesto Burgos, a 2008 NYU Master's Candidate, and Jonah Groeneboer, NYU Master's graduate who currently shows at Bellwether Gallery. Van Woensel, Burgos, and Groeneboer chose emerging artists who they found to be "working with the language of abstraction and seeking to expand and re-contextualize previous modernist notions of geometry." Indeed, the work of artists such as Chris Duncan, Satoru Eguchi, collective Inverted Topology, Pepe Mar, and Michelle Hinebrook, whose work is shown above, continues to confront and challenge notions of geometry that have intrigued artists from Picasso to Sol Le Witt. Like artists before them, the participants in "All is well that begins well and has no end" use painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance, and every possible amalgam of these disciplines to create new possibilities for future discourse in abstraction. Line, form, volume, and anything else takes shape as cardboard masses coded with arcane directions, amorphous constructions wrapped in silver packing tape, vinyl wall paintings that collapse into cylindrical rolls on the floor, stop-time video, and paintings that warp two-dimensionality.
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 The Canadian collaborative duo "Fighting" is currently presenting their newest project "Different Strokes," with the OKOK Gallery in Seattle. "Fighting" consists of childhood friends Niall McClelland and Lukas Geronimas. The artists collectively explore metaphysics, pseudo shamanism, natural history, and subversive political and social movements through gothic ink drawings and collages. The two undermine the seriousness of their chosen imagery by employing subtle humor through satire and references to pop-culture. For their current show with the OKOK Gallery, McClelland and Geronimas constructed a temporary residence in the gallery that is constructed of found material and contains a burlap roof. The artists lived in the structure as they produced much of the work for the exhibit. The work manifested into large collages, some of which act as vertical banners spanning the back portion of the gallery. The artists have transformed the front of the gallery into a faux-natural history museum, and have individual black and white still life ink drawings that depict a variety of objects such as a human skull. The artists have been interviewed on fecalface.com and have appeared in the publications Lo Down and Color. | |||
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 British designer Peter Marigold's obsession with storage has led him to do several pieces where he studies how geometric phenomena can be the basis for creating structures. This year's Split Series was based on the 360 principle, splitting a form into angled pieces and then inverting them achieves a total of 360 degrees. While his work may be based in geometry, his pieces flow poetically and seamlessly. Marigold is among a group of emerging designers showcased in Grandmateria at the Gallery Libby Sellers in London. The exhibition was launched during the London Design Festival but will continue through October for the Frieze Art Fair. Part of the group at OkayStudio, Marigold has designed installations for the Paul Smith headquarters and was featured in the British Council's Great Brits: Ingenious Therapies exhibition. The Central St. Martins graduate has his MFA in design from the Royal College of Art. | |||
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 The work of artist Marti Cormand is rooted in traditional landscape painting, while simultaneously referencing the digital age. Cormand's tightly rendered paintings seem to pay homage to Dutch School of Painting, yet the artist reaches to the present and states his placement in the history of painting by utilizing the computer and the internet as new tools for creation. The artist manipulates the appropriated photographs by adding and removing elements to fabricate images that otherwise wouldn't exist. Cormand recently received The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum's 2007 Emerging Artist Award and a selection of works will be on view at the Museum until February of 2008. The artist was born in Spain in 1971, is an MFA graduate of the University of Barcelona, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. The artist has completed a recent series of exhibition with the Josee Bienvenu Gallery in NYC between 2003 and 2006. Other exhibitions include "Focus" at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco and a self-titled exhibition with Galeria Alejandro Sales in Barcelona, Spain.
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 Opening at the end of this week at The Lab 101 Gallery in Culver City, Los Angeles is "Wilting Wonder," an exhibition featuring the works of artists Travis Millard, Mel Kadel, Michael Sieben and Mike Aho. These artist often come together to present collaborative projects, the newest being "Wilting Wonder," an exploration of appropriated printing techniques and materials from commercially driven art, re-contextualized not sell a product but rather to explore themes present in the artists individual works. In addition, each artist will present recent works that have been created individually. All of these artists have been very successful in both the commercial and fine art world. Artist Travis Millard created Fudge Factory Comics operated in L.A, while artist Mel Kadel has been involved in projects for Volcom and Foundation Skateboards. Michael Sieben, who currently lives and works in Austin, Texas, operates Okay Mountain Gallery and illustrates for Thrasher Magazine. Mike Aho has recently united visual art, film and music into his work and has worked on commercial projects with Transworld Skateboard Magazine, Bueno Skateboards and Listen! Skateboards. This exhibition will be on view through October 24th. | |||
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 The culturally infused sculptures and paintings of artist BAST are deeply rooted in the elements of hip-hop. The artist explores the energy of graffiti and the surfaces of dilapidated and weathered signage, often depicting devious cartoon characters parading around with guns. Some of the artist's personified characters are exaggerated to humorously reflect the stereotypes associated with hip-hop culture. Bast's work is gritty, ghetto, and fit with a twisted humor. In a recent exhibition with New Image Art Gallery in Hollywood, California the artist presented a collection of "hunting monsters," which mixed Hollywood monster characters like the Wolfman and Creature from the Black Lagoon with modern urban characters like Flava Flav and Biz Markie. | |||
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 The photographic works of young Korean Artist Myoung Ho Lee have gained international acclaim for their simple concept and potent outcome. The artist has been developing an ongoing series that take trees in their natural environment and isolates them by placing a white ground behind the tree elegantly altering the viewer's perception. The subject begins to appear in graphic terms much as photograph would on an immense billboard, inspiring questions of reality, existence, and identity in relation to the surrounding environment. The artist's work has been featured in several magazines and online publications such as Juxtapoz, Design Boom, Lens and Culture, and Everyoneforever.com. | |||
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 "Chaotic Explosions of the Eye" is a new exhibition opening this month in Scandinavia at V1 Gallery by Bay Area artist Andrew Schoultz. The artist, one of the first DS daily features, is on the rise, especially in the United States. Rooted in social conscience, Schoultz's work spans painting and installation and has been presented in countless galleries and city streets. The energy and visual speed of the artist's work aids in his investigation of " medieval maps from the 15th century, mid-eastern miniature painting, biblical symbolism and re-interpreted folk art blended in with present-day themes such as war, globalization, and the relationship between man and nature," states VI Gallery. The artist has exhibited in numerous venues including Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York, New Image Art Gallery in LA and Boston Center for the Arts. Gingko Press recently published a book on the artist's work entitled "Ulysses - the artwork of Andrew Schoultz," featuring infamous works completed in the Mission District of SF and in Indonesia. | |||
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 The new exhibition and book titled "Hybrids" explores various subcultures through photographs taken by Klaus Thymann from 2003 - 2007, investigating gay rodeos, an underwater striptease, snow polo and religious theme parks among many others. The sociological documentation is the material for a new 144 page book that the artist is debuting at the end of next month. The book is printed in a limited edition of only 500 copies, each containing an original print. Thymann will launch the book through several international galleries such as V1 Gallery in Copenhagen and DreamBags Jaguar Shoes in London; a date in New York City is to be determined for November. The artist lives and works in London as a professional photographer and filmmaker shooting for magazines such as ID, Flaunt, and GQ and clients like Depeche Mode and Greenday. | |||
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 Recent works by artist Marlene Mocquet mix elements of surrealism with a genuine interest in the physical property of paint. In the rendering of each anthropomorphic character, the artist employs a variety of techniques mixing oils, acrylics and gouache, defying her materials and blurring the line between foreground and background. Mocquet's work has been related to artists Paul Klee (in his early career) and Max Ernst. The artist is a recent graduate of the School of the Fine Arts of Paris. She has exhibited internationally, presenting her work at Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, and recently exhibiting nearly 20 new works at the Freight and Volume Gallery in New York City. | |||
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 In the exhibition "room x room," currently on view in the James Harris Gallery Project room in Seattle, international and emerging artists come together to investigate ideas related to the architecture of public and private space. Artists in the exhibit include Ralf Bruck, Candida Hofer, Matthew Jordan, Laura Letinsky, and Andrew Moore. Each artist investigates space through deafening images that offer the viewer clues of artistic intention through the formal concerns of style, composition, ornamentation, and light and shadow. In each work, the human element is absent only in that there is no figure present, while the photograph continues to allude to a human presence by revealing inherent social structures contained in each environment. Through the employment of sterile compositions and minimal gestures, the photographers achieve a heightened physiological view of architecture and its ability to shape social interactions. | |||
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 Opening just last week at Danziger Projects in New York City is the highly talked about photographic series "Sentry," by artist Andy Freeberg. The series characterizes the New York Art world through its intentional distance and lack of humility. The artist has stated, "It was an odd moment when I walked into that first gallery in Chelsea and saw a large white desk with a head poking up from the top edge of the computer screen. I set my camera, carefully framing and exposing the scene, and the head never moved or took notice of my gaze..." Freeberg's work is interested in the intersection of art, architecture, and environment especially in its relation to human presence. The artist began his career as a photojournalist completing assignments for Rolling Stone, TIME, and Fortune magazine. The "Sentry" series was recently used for the novel "Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him." The artist's work, though not often shown in a gallery setting, has been acclaimed by critics and was selected as the lead images in a recent show curated by Charlotte Cotton, the new director of photography for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. | |||
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 Cuban-Dominican artist Quisqueya Henriquez opened his first major museum survey exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts yesterday evening. "The World Outside: A Survey Exhibition 1991-2007," showcases the artist's sculptures, installations, drawings, photographs, videos and light/sound works created over the past two decades. In addition to the exhibition, Henriquez was featured in this month's ARTnews magazine. The artist's work investigates social environments through cultural cliches, invoking sensory experiences of urban life through his multi-disciplinary works. The artist, who is currently represented by David Castillo in New York City, studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana, Cuba and the Universidad Autonoma De Santo Domingo (USAD) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Henriquez has exhibited in the Centro de Fotografia de la Isla de Tenerife in the Islas Canarias, Spain and Proyecto de Arte Contemporaneo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, among countless others. The artist is now in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami, the Henry Buhl Foundation and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
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 The paintings and drawings of artist Kelly McLane are rooted in images of nature. McLane lives and works in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and draws much of her inspiration from the landscape, people and animals of that area. Interrupting the imagery are references to the media culture via telephone and cable lines, internet search engines, and bizarre CNN news tales. The artist's previous work depicted post-apocalyptic events, while her current work takes place in the present, investigating concepts of supremacy and social development through metaphors. McLane was born in 1968 and now lives and works in Los Angeles, Calif. Currently, the artist has an exhibition on view with CRG Gallery in New York. The artist is also represented by the Angles Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. | |||
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 Ryoji Ikeda is one of Japan's leading electronic artists/composers today, presenting concerts, installations and recordings, while integrating sound, acoustics and related imagery in venues around the world. The artist combines music, time and space as he explores mathematical relations to sound by manipulating its physical properties. Ikeda pushes the boundaries of both visual and sonic media by using new computer and digital technologies focusing on ultrasonics, frequencies and sine waves. This October, the artist will present his first performance in Ireland with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, which will be in association with Forma, Note Productions and Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival. Ikeda has presented works in the world's leading festivals and venues including Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome and the Tokyo International Forum. In 2001, the artist received the Ars Electronica Golden Nica prize in digital music. | |||
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 "UNEASY ANGEL / IMAGINE LOS ANGELES, Artists from Los Angeles Addressing Intersections Between Reality and Fiction" is an exhibition opening tonight in at Monika Spruth Philomene Magers and Spruth Magers Projekte both in Munich, Germany. Artists such as Doug Aitken, John Baldessari and Barbara Kruger and shown along side the writers and filmmakers that are all living and working in L.A. The culture of L.A. as a city where the boundaries between reality and fiction are often blurred is explored in a variety of ways by each creator. As an artist in a city that is by hyperreal and to some degree post-historical, L.A has become a place of myth, where the entertainment and media industry can willingly shape and construct the city's own reality. The exhibitions are curated by Los Angeles-based Johannes Fricke-Waldthausen, and will be on view into the start of November.
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 The work of Taylor McKimens is included in the new exhibition "Mail Order Monsters," on view this month at Deitch Projects in New York City. McKimens creates an array of comics, zines, paintings, and site specific cut-out installations. The artist has stated being interested in "everyday things that are loaded somehow," portraying the tragic and the humorous with equal strength. Many of the artist's sculptures look as if they are three dimensional cartoons taken from another context and placed before the viewer. McKimens is currently represented by Clementine Gallery in NYC, Perugi Arte Contemporanea in Padova, Italy and Galleri Loyal in Stockholm, Sweden. The artist has appeared in Art Krush, Tokyo Art Beat, and idPure Magazine, Issue No.9.
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 Oakland-based artist Chris Duncan recently opened an exhibition with the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco titled "The Beginning. The Middle. The End." The artist has been interested in exploring concepts related to process, transformation, and reduction. Duncan is known for his work involving intricate string sculptures, and has now begun to literally explore the threads that tie nature, science, and the sprit into life. The artist equally centers the work on personal and political issues, including works like "World War 3D," which is composed of a globe, a cube, and panel that is littered with dots that represent chaos and destruction. Duncan received his BFA for the California College of the Arts, and is the co-creator of the art zine Hot and Cold. The artist has exhibited "Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies," at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco as well as "The Continued Exploration of Pink and Brown," at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City. In 2006, Duncan received the Goldie Award for Visual Art. | |||
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 GEISAI Artists at Giant Robot is an exhibition presented by Scion, Giant Robot, and Kaikai Kiki which features work by aspiring artists in Japan. The show which opens next week at GR2 was developed and organized by internationally renowned artist and curator Takashi Murakami and Eric Nakamura, publisher of Giant Robot Magazine. The two hand picked the artists to have their work presented in Los Angeles during this exhibition. GEISAI will feature the work of Yasushi Ebihara, Hisashi Kondo, Sashie Masakatsu and Rie Kawashima, Jaga Ichiro, Rieko Sakurai, Miki Taira and Erika Yamashiro through painting, sculpture and installation.
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 On Sept. 14 Belgian artist/designer Arne Quinze's latest work "Cityscape" will open on the suburban streets of Brussels, Belgium. The enormous wooden sculpture is 131-feet long, 82-feet wide and 39-feet high and will stand for year in Brussels' luxury district. Quinze, the artistic director of design company Quinze and Milan,says of his piece, "'Cityscape' resembles a frozen movement, speed caught in time." The piece encourages interaction, people are able to walk through and experience the changes in light as the sun comes through the wood. The aritst built a similar structure last year at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. At the end of the festival the structure was set on fire. A self-taught artist, Quinze first found his creative outlet with graffitti as a homeless 15-year-old. Later this month Quinze has several pieces in Mutagenesis, a solo exhibition at the Abitare Il Tempo design exhibition in Verona, Italy. To listen to a discussion with the artist on WPS1 Art Radio click here. | |||
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 California-based artist, Aaron Noble, creates seemingly abstract compositions from imagery associated with commercial comic books. While the artist's work is deeply rooted in superhero-based images, he manages to extract any form of narrative, leaving the viewer to decode the mass of ambiguous information as a unique form. Noble has new work on view in his first solo show with Pavel Zoubok Gallery in NYC, entitled "Rainbow 6: Warsong." The exhibition, which opens this weekend, offers several newly constructed works that explore the various bosses and enemies that relate to the world of Manga Japanese animation. In addition to painting and drawing, Noble has also developed an extensive list of public wall murals that allow his imagery to unfold on a mass scale. Noble attended the San Francisco Art Institute before co-founding the Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) in San Francisco in 1991. The artist has completed projects with the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, White Columns in NYC, and PeerUK in London.
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 The large scale photographs of Martin Schoeller have developed as one of the most distinctive photographic styles today. The artist produces large format color portrait photographs that are often presented as 4 foot high, tightly cropped images that contain no direct outside point of reference. The artist began his inventory of celebrity images in 1993 when he came to the U.S to work with Annie Leibovitz. This later developed into the artist directly working for magazines such as The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and Esquire. Many of the photos negate the personality of the subject in exchange for a more structural matter-of-fact depiction. Much information is lost when a person becomes loosely familiar with the image of a particular celebrity, Schoeller's work shatters this illusion as the viewer is directly confronted with factual rather than associated imagery. Schoeller has a new exhibition and opening tonight at the Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills, CA, featuring a mix on new and older work. The artist has exhibited internationally with recent shows at Gallery Wouter van Leeuwen in Amsterdam (2006) and with the Brancolini Grimaldi Contemporary Art in Rome (2006). In 2005, teNeues Publishing Group released an artist book entitled "Close Up," with works by Schoeller.
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 Artist Jim Lee infuses his works with a unique humor that is presented as an abstract solution existing cleverly between sculpture and painting. Lee pays close attention to the formal elements of texture, color and form. While many of his works seem to be deeply rooted in Modernism, Lee actually draws much of his inspiration from industrial and consumer goods, often using related materials in the work in unsuspecting ways. The artist regularly challenges his seemingly aesthetic approach through the use of art historical references, specific titles and recycled materials. Lee received his MFA from the University of Delaware and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. The artist has completed several shows national and internationals exhibitions with CRG Gallery and Freight + Volume both in NYC, Larry Becker Contemporary in Pennsylvania and Galerie Markus Winter in Berlin. Lee currently teaches at Hofstra University and Queens College in NYC. | |||
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 Opening today in Beverley Hills is the first exhibition by artist Tom Sachs presented by the Gagosian Gallery. Sachs, a previous DailyServing feature, has gained international acclaim for his technically meticulous sculptures of manufactured objects and structures. The artist crafts his sculptures with very basic materials often associated with model making such as foam core, chip-board and hot-glue. Over the last decade, Sachs has been engaged with the technical wonder and romance associated with the American Apollo space program. Through experimenting with individual models of various sizes, the artist has begun to develop his own fully operating conceptual space program. By working with high-style and production clothing companies such as Nike and Prada to develop items such as lab coats and space boots, Sachs has expanded his artistic vocabulary and inventory immensely. Sachs originally studied at the Architectural Association in London (1987), and later received a B.A. from Bennington College in Vermont (1989). Since the artist has exhibited globally and has work in the collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Centre Georges Pomidou. | |||
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 New paintings by French-born, New York-based artist Jules de Balincourt will be presented in an exhibition entitled "Unknowing Man's Nature," opening this weekend at the Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL) in New York City. This will be Balincourt's third exhibition with the gallery, featuring paintings that are often rooted in American political and historical themes, illustrated with text-based design. Balincourt has exhibited internationally at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Royal Academy of Art in London and P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center in NYC. The artist received his BFA at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco (1998) and his MFA from Hunter College in NYC (2005). Balincourt has also appeared in several publications such his review in Art in America (2005) and "Accidental Tourism and the Art of Forgetting" in the Exberliner.
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Opening this Thursday at the RHYS Gallery in Boston will be an exhibition of several new works by Los Angeles-based artist Amir H. Fallah. On view in the gallery will be one of Fallah's signature fort/terrarium installations which will contain live cacti and music by Minor Threat. Fallah, who is also the founder and creative director of Beautiful/Decay Magazine, has exhibited internationally with the Third Line Gallery in Dubai and participated in the recent Rogue Wave exhibition at the L.A. Louver Gallery. DailyServing recently spoke with Fallah about his upcoming exhibition, new directions in his work and his pick of L.A. artists, read the full interview below. 
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 The visceral paintings and works on paper by artist Paul Mullins seem to pay homage to the rural contentment and simplicity of life as represented by images of dogs, fish and land working people. However, the sensitivity of the artist's renderings elevates the commonplace imagery, offering a more substantial look at this subject matter. Mullins' new work is a departure from his previous imagery of muscle cars, grand champion hogs and bulls, which spoke much more of masculinity within that type of lifestyle, yet the focus still remains on rural American life. Opening this Saturday at the Nathan Larranmendy Gallery in Ojai, California, will be "Some Other Day in the Garden," new works by Mullins. The artist has exhibited widely in the U.S. with shows at Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, Ambrosino Gallery in Miami, Florida, and Aron Packer Gallery in Chicago, among many others. He has been featured in Flash Art and Flaunt Magazine as well as Artnet.com. Mullins received his MFA from Ohio State University, and his BFA from Marshall University in West Virginia, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at San Francisco State University.
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 Galerie Adler in New York will present new drawings, animations and an installation in "Paradox Parade," opening this Friday, featuring Icelandic artist Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir. The artist produces several anthropomorphic creatures existing in stark white environments that seem to walk the line between playful and grotesque. The illustrated creatures have a strange humanistic quality, often becoming menacing while simultaneously offering comic relief in their awkward and laughable stance. When describing her work the artist has stated, "My work is about what happens when someone does something to somebody or something happens to someone but sometimes someone is simply doing something or thinking something else." Sigurdardottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland and currently lives and works Reykjavik and Glasgow, Scotland. The artist is an MFA graduate of The Glasgow School of Art and received her BFA from The Icelandic Academy of Art and Design. Sigurdardottir has already began an international career with exhibitions "Wrong House," with Washington Garcia Gallery in Glasgow, "Paracide Park," with Centre d'art et de diffusion Clark in Montreal, Canada, and a forth coming exhibition at Kunstverein Uelzen in Uelzen, Germany. The artist has been featured in LIST Icelandic Art News and received an artist award from The Woollen Glove, from The Icelandic Art Academy in 2006. | |||
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 The paintings of Julie Heffernan are a constant dilemma of opposites between the gorgeous and the grotesque, attraction and repulsion, with a bounty of enormous amounts of wealth and waste of resources, energy and lives. Each one of Heffernan's figures are heavily draped with the carcasses of animals, strung with rose-webbing, bejeweled with medals and encircled by heads of state. As the artist's frantic imagery heightens to a climax, each woman gazes at the viewer with serene calm. Heffernan received her undergraduate degree in painting and printmaking from University of California and her graduate degree in painting from Yale University. She has received a Lila Acheson Wallace award, NY Foundation for the Arts award, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright-Hayes Grant. Heffernan will be showing at P.P.O.W. Sept. 20-Oct. 20 in New York City. | |||
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